Joel Butler (Dominican Republic, 1980) is currently working as Visual Arts Curator and Exhibitions Coordinator at Centro León in Santiago, Dominican Republic. With a background in photography and graphic design, he has undertaken curatorial studies and practices since 2014. He is an alumnus of the Curando Caribe program for curatorial studies developed in 2015 between Centro León and Centro Cultural de España en Santo Domingo. Joel is part of the professorate of the Diploma Degree in Contemporary Art Production and Management at La Escuela de Diseño Altos de Chavón and has also taught short courses in art appreciation, creative thinking and photography.